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Player Focus: Ronaldo vs Ibrahimovic - Whoever Wins, Football Loses

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Player Focus: Ronaldo vs Ibrahimovic - Whoever Wins, Football Loses Ahead of the World Cup playoffs, Cristiano Ronaldo netted a hat-trick in Real Madrid’s 5-1 win over Real Sociedad. Over in Paris, Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored 3 identical goals to his Portuguese counterpart as PSG secured a 3-1 victory at the expense of Nice. While it’s perhaps the norm for...

Player Focus: Cavani & Ibra Still Searching for Common Ground

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Player Focus: Cavani & Ibra Still Searching for Common Ground In the build-up to Paris Saint-Germain’s top-of-the-table clash with Monaco, the elephant in the room couldn’t be ignored – and their frequently blunt coach Laurent Blanc was never likely to. “Things aren’t going so badly between Cavani and Ibra,” he said on the F...

Player Focus: Is Playing Off The Last Defender A Useful Means Of Attack?

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Player Focus: Is Playing Off The Last Defender A Useful Means Of Attack? “That lad must’ve been born offside,” is one of the more memorable quips from former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson. The veteran Scot was referring to Italian striker Filippo Inzaghi, the 39-year-old famed during his playing career for playing off the last defender as ...

Team Focus: Can Zlatan Ibrahimovic And Edinson Cavani Play Together For PSG?

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Team Focus: Can Zlatan Ibrahimovic And Edinson Cavani Play Together For PSG? Last year,as Paris Saint-Germain secured their first French title since 1994,Zlatan Ibrahimovic became the first player to score 30 goals in a single Ligue 1 season since Jean-Pierre Papin reached the landmark with Olympique Marseille over the 1989/90 campaign. Naturally, the aim of the club is to b...

Player Focus: Best New Signings of the Season XI

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Player Focus: Best New Signings of the Season XI Transfer season is upon us, and while our insatiable appetite for football has to be satisfied by mere speculation and the hope of a marque signing, the media does its best to attract interest with the best rumours they can find. Only some of those will become a reality, however, and only a proporti...

Player Focus: Is Zlatan Ibrahimovic The Best Striker On The Continent?

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Player Focus: Is Zlatan Ibrahimovic The Best Striker On The Continent? It's been largely mooted that the role of the classic 'number 9' striker is slowly dying out. In the modern game, frontmen are expected to not only provide the goals to his respective team, but also hold play up and chip in with assists for their fellow teammates.This has seen the input of Javier 'C...

Player Focus: Europe's Top Goal Contributors

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Player Focus: Europe's Top Goal Contributors Like Arsenal last season, teams are often chastised for being overly reliant on a single player, with critics arguing that without that player they would struggle and potentially even fail. Without Robin van Persie this term, Arsenal are undoubtedly worse off and they paid for any dependence on the ...

League Focus: Ligue 1 Goals

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League Focus: Ligue 1 Goals In Ligue 1 the teams that end up on top are unsurprisingly the most clinical. Its one thing to create chances (ask Lille), while it's another thing to put them away. Too often chances are wasted and teams struggle, reputations are made, and many are broken. Take Valenciennes' excellent 4-1 win over ...

Team Focus: A Chink in PSG's Expensive Armour?

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Team Focus: A Chink in PSG's Expensive Armour? Ligue 1 may have kicked off on the Friday night with Champions Montpellier in action but the eyes of the nation were focused on the capital as the spotlight fell on Qatari owned Paris Saint-Germain, who opened the season against FC Lorient. After spending €100 million last season it was Lorient...

Team Focus: Can Ligue 1 Competitors Keep Up with PSG?

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Team Focus: Can Ligue 1 Competitors Keep Up with PSG? With July not even over yet Paris Saint Germain have already splashed out over €100m this summer on a number of signings which may well change the face of French football next season. In securing the signatures of former Milan duo Thiago Silva and Zlatan Ibrahimovic many are tipping the Parisia...